[VermiciousKnid]

Beats me, k...all I know is that one week sometime in the '70s, we all knelt at the altar rail for Communion, and the VERY NEXT WEEK, we were all standing instead.

Soon after, they gutted our formerly beautiful church, took out the altar rail, the main altar, the real candles and the statues, and put in ugly carpeting, ugly paneling, ugly felt banners and those awful fake push-button "candles."

The congregants were NOT happy, but that didn't stop 'em.

Regards,

PS: I can't think of a more appropriate posture for the congregation to take while receiving the Holy Eucharist than kneeling. I will NEVER understand why it was changed.

[old and tired]

I also miss kneeling for communion. It seems the proper posture. At my grandson's first communion, the children all knelt at the altar rail to receive for the first time. It was so beautiful, I nearly wept.

[Bigg Red]

..all I know is that one week sometime in the '70s, we all knelt at the altar rail for Communion, and the VERY NEXT WEEK, we were all standing instead.

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I know exactly what you are talking about.

One week we were praising the Lord reverently while accompanied by an organ in the back of the church, and the next we were caterwalling to guitars and drums played by musicians in the sanctuary facing the congregation and grinnin' and pickin' as if performing a concert. I have even witnessed the celebrant calling for applause for the performers. What's up with that?